Leading by three with 3.2 seconds to play, Jack Brown hit both ends of a one-and-one to extinguish the Green Knights’ hopes and make his brother’s 21 points look even better.

“Coach had us going through a game plan for if I missed, but I knew I wasn’t going to miss that,” Jack Brown said. “I had to make those. I’m not losing to Mount.”

Sallies (11-5) relied on Paul Brown most of the way. The 6-foot-5 forward missed his first shot, then hit eight in a row from a variety of angles and distances. The Sals have won six of their last seven, and coach Brendan Haley said Paul Brown’s sharpness backed up a 15-point night in a 57-54, five-overtime victory at St. Mark’s last Friday.

“The last two games, he has been a monster for us,” Haley said. “He really has, on both ends. Rebounds and keeping balls alive. … He has played his best basketball, and we have needed it.”

His presence was felt immediately. Paul Brown hit back-to-back jump hooks, fed Darnell Vaughan for a layup, scored off an offensive rebound and splashed a 3-pointer as Salesianum took a 15-10 lead after one quarter.

“It’s the end of my senior season. I came out with a lot of momentum,” the left-hander said. “I’m not really nervous anymore. I’m going after rebounds, taking reasonable shots.”

He kept it up in the second quarter, starting it with a baseline jumper and ending it with a floater as the Sals led 30-24 at the half.

“I was kind of feeling hot,” said Paul Brown, who went 9 of 12 from the field. “I kept shooting, but I was also looking for my teammates, because they can do a lot, too.”

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Jack Brown opened the fourth quarter with a 3 to push Sallies’ margin to 44-37. But Mount Pleasant (13-4), which had won 10 of its last 11 and has already clinched the Blue Hen Flight B title, was far from finished.

Junior Fah’Mir Ali, who transferred to Mount from Salesianum after his freshman year, found an extra gear. The point guard scored off an offensive rebound and turned a steal into a layup. Then Timothy Pittman scored off another offensive board to pull the Green Knights within 46-45 with 1:38 to play.

“They had us on the ropes a little bit there at the end,” Haley said. “Fah’Mir, he’s just non-stop. … We were trying to keep track of him. I know sometimes it didn’t look like that, but he just kept moving. He was kind of coaching the guys up out there, and I thought he was going to do us in.”

Michael Wallace righted the Sals’ ship with a driving layup with 54 seconds remaining. Then the Green Knights missed twice in the lane, and Jack Brown scored the final points at the line.